Skanda Purana
The largest Purana; the Kashi and Kedara Khandas and the Setu-mahatmya expand the jyotirlinga and temple traditions.
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Appears in
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The Puranas (Sanskrit purana, 'old' or 'ancient tale') are a large class of Hindu scriptures that retell creation, the cosmic ages, divine and royal genealogies,…
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
The regional development of the Krauncha episode draws also on Skanda Purana material.
- The Eighteen Treatise
…n from around the ninth century to the nineteenth, has shown that the Skanda Purana is really several different works under one name, redacted and re-redacted, a library wearing the cover of a book.
- The book of the city Treatise
…r "book", and the Kashi Khanda is one book of a much larger work, the Skanda Purana , which is the most sprawling of all the eighteen great Puranas, a vast, loose, many-layered anthology of myth, ritual, geneal…
- Jagannātha and Viśvāvasu Treatise
Viśvāvasu, the Śabara who in the popular telling worshipped the deity of Puri in the forest before any king found him, is genuinely in a Sanskrit text: the…